Cindy Williams, David Rasche and several well-trained...

Cindy Williams, David Rasche and several well-trained border collies will star in Barkoff Productions’ “Bingo!,” described by one person close to the production as “Benji on acid.” Jim Strain’s script concerns the smartest dog in the world and his determination to find the family of his dreams. Matthew Robbins directs and Thomas Baer produces starting Sept. 12 in Vancouver. Tri-Star distributes.

Lauren Hutton will co-star opposite Billy Zane in Penta Pictures’ “Millions.” Carlo Van Zina directs the drama, written by Enrico Van Zina, about a fight over a family business that breaks out when the father goes into a coma. Cameras roll mid-September in Mexico, Italy, France and Barbados.

Julie Brown has replaced JoBeth Williams in IRS Media’s “Shakes the Clown,” currently filming in L.A. under the direction of its writer-star, Bob Goldthwait. Williams was forced to drop out due to personal reasons.

David Heavener is a quadri-hyphenate in Hero Productions’ “Blood Law.” He not only stars as a renegade, small-town cop caught between the FBI and the underworld in this comedy-thriller, he also serves writer, director and producer. Tony Curtis plays a mob boss while Isaac Hayes plays a police captain. Production gets under way this month in Bakersfield.

Robert Wuhl and Eric Idle will star in Aaron Russo Entertainment’s buddy comedy, “Missing Pieces.” Leonard Stern wrote and will direct the film starting Oct. 9 in New York and L.A. Orion distributes.

Marc Singer has signed with Linda and Christopher Lewis’ Entertainment Group to re-create the role of 1940s Hollywood detective Dan Turner, whom he first played in “The Raven Red Kiss-Off,” in two more films. The character originally appeared in a series of pulp novels written by Robert Leslie Bellem. The films, “Lights, Action, Murder” and “Off-Stage Murder” go into production next year.

Two sci-fi action-thrillers get underway this month. In Concorde’s “Future Kick,” Meg Foster hires a bounty hunter--played by light-heavyweight karate kickboxing champion Don (The Dragon) Wilson--to seek out killer Eb Lottimer and his half-man, half-machine sidekick, Christopher Penn. Damian Klaus directs and Mike Elliott and Catherine Cyran produce from a script all three wrote. Filming begins Tuesday in L.A.